SK ST BERNARD DALAT

English Department
Yearly Plan
2015
I.

Overall Targets
1. Enhancing teaching and learning effectiveness
2. Arousing students interest towards English learning
3. Helping students to build up their confidence in English
4. Helping students to develop their reading, writing, speaking and
listening skills
5. Enhancing teachers professional development
6. Enhancing collaborative work among teachers
7. Encouraging teachers and students use of IT in English language
teaching and learning

II.

Present Situation
A. Strengths
1 The school gives full support to the Department
2. Co-ordination of work is systematic, with clear
guidelines and
expectations given to teachers.
3 The relationship among teachers in the
Department is good
and teachers are co-operative and helpful.
4.Diversity of students standard of English within
classes is
minimized
5. Teachers are encouraged to tailor teaching
materials for all classes.

B. Weaknesses
1. Most of our students come from families of low socio-economic
background so they have limited exposure to English outside school.
2. Exposure within school is inadequate since Bahasa Malaysia is the
medium of instruction in the school.
3. Unsatisfactory exposure leads to a lack of confidence and low
motivation among students towards learning English.

C. Opportunities
1. The availability of English Department enables the implementation of
programmes and activities as well as the try-out of English activities.
2. Create opportunities for teachers to further develop professionally.
D. Threats
1. The professional development of teachers may create extra pressure for
teachers who are already over-loaded with new demands of workload
and department initiatives.
2. The implementation of extra programmes, workshops and activities
may also burden teachers with extra workload and pressure.
3. The English proficiency of newly admitted students is beyond our
control.
III. Major concerns of the year 2015
1. To develop pronunciation and word recognition skills among students.
2. To develop the awareness and appreciation of different genres among
students
3. To cultivate the habit of active and responsible learning attitude among
students
4. To provide professional development for teachers to familiarize them
with the teaching in the present curriculum.

IV. Implementation Plan

1. To develop pronunciation and word recognition skills among students

Strategies / Tasks
DEAR
( DROP
EVERYTHING
AND READ)

Time Scale

Success Criteria

Methods of
Evaluation

Term 1 & 2
Self assess learning during the
morning programme for English
lesson

Assessments,
Reading during
the Morning
Programme
Questionnaire
( hots )

People
Responsible
English
teachers

Resources
Required
Story Books

2.To develop the awareness and appreciation of different genres among students
Strategies / Tasks
Language Arts
programme

Time Scale

Success Criteria

Term 2
Able to do Language Arts during
the lesson and club time

Methods of
Evaluation

People
Responsible

Ongoing
assessment

English
teachers

Questionnaire
Student workshop:
Developing Effective
Language Skills
through social issues

Evaluation survey
Throughout
the year

conducted

Questionnaire

Resources
Required

4. To cultivate the habit of active and responsible learning attitude among students

Strategies / Tasks

Time Scale

School-based
Throughout
Grammar and
the year
Vocabulary
Building Platform
My English
Assessment

Throughout
the year

English word
Builder

Throughout
the year

Success Criteria

Methods of
Evaluation

People
Responsible

Competition, game

Competition,
game

English
teachers

Ongoing
assessments
Ongoing
assessments

English
teachers
English
teachers

Resources
Required

5. To provide professional development for teachers to familiarize them with the teaching of electives modules in the
curriculum
Strategies / Tasks

Time Scale

Success Criteria

Teacher workshop:
Learning English
through Social
Issues & PLC
(professional
learning
community)

Throughout
the year

evaluation survey conducted

Methods of
Evaluation

People
Responsible
All English
teachers

Resources
Required

5. Evaluation
Continuous Assessment
Listening skills

Speaking skills

Summative Assessment

Listening tasks and exercises during lessons

Teaching and learning activities and tasks during lessons
Online learning programme
Speaking tasks
Teaching and learning activities and tasks during lessons
( teacher student interaction, pair work, presentation &
group discussion )
7

Listening tests and examinations

Oral tests and examination

Reading skills

Writing skills

Language Arts
and Grammar

Reading comprehension exercises

Teaching and learning activities and tasks during lessons
Storybooks reading
Grammar exercises
Online reading programme

Reading tests and examinations

Teaching and learning activities and tasks during lessons

Journal Writing
Sentence making exercises
Newspaper Cutting
Grammar exercises
Projects

Writing examinations

Vocabulary building-word builders

Grammar exercises
Literature exposure

Literature reading
Jazz chants
Choral reading
Book review